People & Places - Tulane University Special Collections
Ann Case, University Archivist, Agnieszka Czeblakow, Rare Books Curator, Samantha Schafer, Collection Management Archivist, and Kevin Williams, Coordinator for Exhibits and Outreach, displayed works in the exhibit, Artists Among Us. The exhibit features the art and craft work of people working throughout the library. It is currently on display on the sixth floor of Howard-Tilton Memorial Library.
Ann Case, University Archivist, has been elected secretary of the Tulane University Women’s Association. She is also secretary of the Library Department and serves as the department’s delegate to the University Senate.
Jillian Cuellar, TUSC Director, Ann Case, University Archivist, Leon Miller, Louisiana Research Collection Curator, and Melissa Weber, Hogan Archive Curator, attended the conference “Risky Business: The Politics, Pitfalls, and Possibilities of Curatorial Practice in Special Collections” in Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-11. Hosted by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, the conference fostered conversations to seek community-oriented solutions to donors, administrators, and public expectations regarding collecting and access to Special Collections.
Leon Miller, Curator, Louisiana Research Collection, has been appointed to the Society of American Archivists Ernst Posner Committee. The committee recognizes an outstanding essay dealing with some facet of archival administration, history, theory, and/or methodology that was published during the preceding year in The American Archivist.
Melissa A. Weber, curator of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, was featured in a recent WGNO TV story about the Louis Prima collection. This past May, she spoke at the Society of American Archivists (SAA) conference, giving a presentation titled “What’s in a Name?: Archive Repository Renaming as Activism and Advocacy.” In April, Weber also gave a presentation at the conference for the Radio Preservation Task Force conference of the Library of Congress. Titled "Jivin' with Dr. Daddy-O: Race, Radio, and Representing Black in Jim Crow New Orleans,” the presentation incorporated digitized air checks from the TUSC collection for Vernon “Dr. Daddy-O” Winslow, who in 1949 became the first Black radio disc jockey in New Orleans.
10/5/2023
